The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-18
GENERAL RAILWAY NEWS.
Matters of Money and Management
About Various Lines.

A. E. Lippincott, formerly in the passen-
ger service of the Queen and Crescent rail-
road, is now in the train service on the Ala
bama Great Southern road.
The Nashville and Chattanooga and Louis
| vile and Nashville roads are making the
same rates to the North as were made be-
fore the suspension of the fourth section Of
| the interstate commerce bill.
| In recent report before the Master Car
| Builders Convention Mr. NJ n. Fofney, OF
| the Committee on Accidents to Trainmen,
submitted the following: Taking as basis
| the reports of the Railroad Commissioners
of Massachusetts, New York and Michigan,
they show that $50 locomotives killed 2l7
and injured ,226 employees in those States,
and that y. 037 locomotives in the United
States killed 1,426 employees and injured
| 6,548.
The surveying corps consisting of eleven
| men, who have been surveying route for
| fifteen miles from Burnt Grocery, in Ala
bama, to the other side of Tally mountain,
have nearly completed their work, and the
| Land Company are greatly pleased at the
result. They find they have route nearly
! five miles shorter than the railroad COM
pany S survey, which went around the town,
with less grade to the mile, and in every
particular better route.
The survey of the new line of the B. V.
& E. road, from Lacrosse to Americas, has
been completed. The point of divergence
is at the switch Just beyond Lacrosse, and
the distance from there TO Americas is
| shorter than was expected-only seven
miles There is one mile near Lacrosse
which will cost about So 600, while there
will be three or four miles which will cost
only about $3.50 per mile. The cost of the
line will not exceed $4,000.
President George H. Nettleson, General
Freight Agent M. L. Sargent, of the Kan
sas City, Fort Scott and Gulf railroad, and
Division Superintendent John H. Sullivan
arrived at Birmingham, Ala, Friday, July
Is, and in the afternoon went out ON their
road, building from there to Holly Springs,
Miss. 1t now runs out some thirty five
miles from Birmingham, except for the
Warrior river bridge, and the visiting Off
cials say the line will be completed some
time in September and regular traffic
through instituted Oct l.
Says the Oconee Enterprise: There are
three squads at work on the line between
Watkinsville and Madison. One (Toon
Powelrs convicts) is at Stovall's, just the
other side of the Appalachee river; another
(Smith's copvicts) Is stationed about three
miles further on, and Hampton & Bradeen's
hands are within three miles of Madison.
In all there are over 200 hands at work on the
road, and last Monday morning about forty
more were added for Bradeen's camp. 1t is
hoped that the forces will be doubled and
work pushed rapidly through.
In an interview in Saturdays Mont
gomery, (Ala.l Advertiser the following bit
of railroad gossip is given: Railroads are
projected to Rome, Ga Selma, Ala, and
Aberdeen, Miss 1t is almost definitely set
tied that the Georgia Central railroad will
be built from Carrollton, Ca, through De
catur, and that the Illinois Central will
build from Milan, Tenn, to Decatur to
meet it. This you see will add another
feather to Decatur's cap in the way of an
other grand trunk line from st. Louis
through Cairo and Decatur to the seacoast at
Savannah"
The Legislature of Florida at its last ses-
sion granted a charter for the Suwannee and
Gulf railroad, to be built from Cedar Key
to Bradford, Fla, a distance of sixty miles.
The Secretary of the company has made
personal inspection of the route and reports
there is less waste lands and more good lands
on the line than on any line of road in the
South in proportion to its length. He finds
the people all very anxious to have the road
built, and has secured the necessary right of
way for almost the entire route. The
| donations in aid of the enterprise,
consisting of lands, town lots, water fronts,
river fronts and facilities, are worth hun
dreds of thousands of dollars to the road
when built, and the country is sufficiently
settled now to guarantee the prosperity of
the line. The road will pour into Savannah
over the Savannah, Florida & Western
Railway from Branford, all the produce
from the entire west coast of Florida and
the very rich and rapidly growing sections
located in the western sections of the coun-
ties of Levy, Alachua, Lafayette and Su-
vance.
The surveying corps of the B. G. & F.
railroad which left Cuthbert about June l,
and which reached cambridge on June 90,
have, since their arrival, been engaged in
hunting the most feasible crossing for their
line over Flint river and in making up their
Typographical maps, and calculating trans
verse sections, etc, which work they about
completed last week. On Monday afternoon
last, however, Chief Engineer Hooper re-
ceived orders from President Montgomery
to proceed to locate and survey a route
southeast from cambridge to Concord, Fla,
a point on a direct line with Tallahassee.
This line will probably intersect the Savan-
nah, Florida and Western railway
some two miles above Fowlstown, and
strike the headwaters of Attapulgus
creek. From this point the country is
smooth for many miles down the banks of
this stream, and on to its confluence with
Big Swamp creek, and on to Concord, which
lies just over the Florida line. The camp
outfit was moved on Tuesday morning to
Four Mile creek, and the surveyors took I'D
the line about one mile below the city
where it crossed the river, near the old free
ferry. This crossing was decided upon by
reason of the failure of the city authorities
to grant the road permission to
pass through the city except at points
the approaches to which would necessi-
tate curves on long trestles in or
der to reach them. A talk with Chief En-
gineer Hooper shows that the road from
Bainbridge to Colquitt, in Miller county, is
a matter of very light labor. He thinks
that the cross-ties and iron could be laid
down with very little labor on the road
bed; but from that point to Cuthbert con-
siderable grade work will be necessary in
places, though less than one would imagine,
after twenty years abandonment of the
road bed and the heavy rainfalls incident
to this latitude.
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